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03 Aug 2015 7:05:26am

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CURSE ALL WORD LIMITS!

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"There are dozens of theories on what causes a near-death experience (NDE). They include bizarre electrical activity in parts of the brain, endorphins in the brain stem, strange natural chemicals in the brain such as endopsychosin, intrusion of our normal REM dream sleep into our consciousness, and many other theories.

"These theories all have some elements of fact to back them up, and probably, they all are involved in varying amounts, depending on the person.

"But recently, Dr Olaf Blanke, a neurologist at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland, was able to consistently duplicate some of the elements of the NDE in the lab.

"He stimulated, with electricity, a part of the brain called the left angular gyrus. Patients immediately reported the impression of a shadowy person lurking behind them. And when he stimulated the right angular gyrus, they reported that they left their physical body and could look down on it from above — the classic out-of-body experience.

"At some stage in the future, we might know enough about the brain to fully understand the NDE. But right now, we know that you don't have to be dying to have one, and that it neither proves nor disproves the existence of an afterlife."